A 2,500-year-old tomb found in Siberia's Valley of the Kings

CAIRO – 31 March 2022: Archaeologists discovered a large burial mound in Siberia dating back more than 2,500 years.

The ancient cemetery contains the remains of five people, including the remains of a woman and a child who were buried with a collection of funeral goods, such as a crescent-shaped necklace, a bronze mirror and gold earrings.

These hills were created by the Scythians, a term used to describe the culturally related nomadic groups that lived on the steppes between the Black Sea and China from about 800 BC to about 300 AD.

The discovered cemetary in Siberia - social media

The burial mound known as Kurgan is located near another burial site of a king in the region. 

"Given the proximity of the woman's burial mound to a king's house - only 656 feet (200 metres) - and the valuable artifacts buried with her, I believe she was a figure of great importance in the Bedouin community," said Lukasz Olskaz, an archaeologist at the Jagiellonian University's Institute of Archaeology; Olskaz led the Polish team working alongside Russian archaeologists at the site.

Olskaz added that the crescent pendant came to prominence immediately after the excavations, adding to Live Science, "This artifact that we thought males wore in ancient times was buried, because objects of a similar shape have previously been found in the men's burials at Kurgan in southern Siberia. “